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state Battalion,P:;f January 31 Special election I lawsuit dismissed in United Press International BEAUMONT — A panel of three federal judges Saturday dismissed a lawsuit seeking to delay the Feb. 12 special election to fill the congressional seat va cated by former U.S. Rep. Phil Gramm of College Station. U.S. District Judge William Wayne Justice of Tyler and U.S. District Judge Robert Parker of Beaumont heard nearly an hour of arguments and conferred with 5th U.S. Circuitjudge Sam Johnson of Austin by telephone before dismissing the lawsuit foi lack of venue. The panel felt it was not the proper court to hear the case. The judges said although they technically had power to rule in the lawsuit, the matter would be more appropriately addressed by a federal court in the U.S. Western District of Texas, which covers a portion of the 6th Congressional District. Their district, the federal court system’s Eastern District of Texas, does not cover any of the counties in the 6th District, the district in which Gramm is run ning for re-election. , Plaintiffs’ lawyer George Kor- bel did not immediately indicate if the suit would be refilled. The lawsuit, filed by the Texas Rural Legal Aid Inc. of Austin, claimed the special con gressional election scheduled for Feb. 12 violated provisions of the federal Voting Rights Act. Korbel said the U.S. Justice Department did not approve the election date as required by the Voting Rights Act. He asked the court to resche dule the special election for the first Saturday in April, one of the four “uniform” dates in the Texas Election Code. Korbel claimed the statute governing the calling of such special elections is unconstitu tional because it allows the filing deadline to be five days af ter the election is announced. He said that is insuf ficient time for those unable to afford the filing fee to circulate petitions to obtain a ballot position. Assistant Texas Attorney General Rick Gray, who de fended the state’s action, said he wants the issue disjwtfc , ’j"! court as soon as po«;>Ij. J•^ state can carry out ” ia process. m ' ( ( h ay said thestaleiif the assa to return iocourtifaiio^B ) suit is filed. pa' 1 ‘ n The controversial prison i was called shortly aftn® 1 ^ heat resigned his congresst^f “ a - on Jan. 5 because DgH T er | had stripped him ofli| sei . v j n g gious seat on the HousiB^ a j j, Committee. Gramm<]u« an , as a Democrat, switckSggo’ y and announced hisoir ters jjy a Republican. M 0 odm I hen Texas Gov It ppi^ay Clements Jr., alsoaRepB^ « ailed a special eledM^H 12. ■ e g ov< Democratic leaden release Clements of aiding giving the Democrats^B.d hii c lent time to organizet^l lson n\( opposition camjii^Bj 11 h 1 therefore giving lhel^P“ ( ans .m edge in then,-I 'V \ttoi ne\s lui th< Dt . .. . ( ‘ 1 Partv, the Republicu ( .P aN ' n S c >i atnm and severalofc^B 13 .^ 8 dates were represent ^ 1 ^ Beaumont hearing. Surgeon’s record defended United Press International SAN ANTONIO —A woman whose mentally retarded son died while being operated on defended the much criticized surgeon by saying the doctor’s success rate is so low because he took on cases other surgeons would not touch. A Defense Department re port this week said 45 percent of Dr. William Stanford’s patients died while he was chief of car diac thoracic surgery at Wilford Hall hospital in San Antonio from 1975 to 1977. No other doctor had a patient mortality rate higher than 9 percent, it said. The San Antonio woman said her son, B'/s, had Down’s syn drome and a heart problem that Stanford tried to correct. The child died on Stanford’s operat ing table. “Stanford walked a fine line because he was willing to per form brave, innovative and sometimes experimental surgery,” she said. “If a physi cian wanted to save his reputa tion, he wouldn’t bother with a Down’s syndrome baby.” Stanford, a retired Air Force surgeon, told the San Antonio Light that the Pentagon report was not fair. “It’s irresponsible. You have to look at the cases,” Stanford ' said. He said many of his patients were high risk and had little hope of surviving with or with out surgery. The same conclusion was reached in an Air Force report released last summer. It said Stanford’s 22 percent mortality rate was not out of line with na tional standards for the type of cases operated upon. Stanford is now studying at university hospitals in Iowa City to become a radiologist instead of a heart specialist, he said. “Life’s too short to go through that stuff and worry every time you try to help a patient if you’ll end up in a lawsuit,” he said. Stanford lost a $2.1 million medical malpractice suit in Mil waukee after assisting in an operation that left a woman brain-damaged because a heart- lung machine was hooked up backwards. The case is being appealed. After CBS’s “60 Minutes” re ported on the Milwaukee case and Stanford’s mortality record. Defense Secretary Caspar Wein berger ordered an investigation by the Defense Department. The Air Force had already spent $1 million for four investiga tions at Wilford Hall — three involving Stanford. The Pentagon report pre sented to Weinberger Dec. 30 said one Wilford Hall anesthe siologist had refused to work when Stanford was scheduled to operate on children. Air Force doctors at other military hospit als purposely steered patients away from Wilford Hall, it said. The BUSINESS Monthly Newsletter of the students of the College of Business Administration, Texas A&M University lllllll lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll VolumeS, Number4 Paid advertising, prepared by the College of Business Administraiion Twenty Years of Growth for CBA It is a fact that Texas A&M has contributed much to the econo mic, cultural, and educational en richment of Texas. In this tradi tion, A&M's College of Business Administration has shown pheno menal growth and continuing ex cellence in its programs in the past twenty years.The College has en joyed a growing national promin ence among both academic and business institutions. Texas A&M has entered its 107th year as a center of higher education, and the program in Business Administration is celeb rating its twentieth. In its 107 years, Texas A&M has become one of the leading universities of the South. The School of Business, organized in June 1963, has ac quired that same distinction in only twenty years. The College of Business Admi nistration has made important strides in a number of areas. There is an increase in the accessibility to computers, leadership skills and their development are stressed, and in the future plans are being made to increase communication skills. Although a leading business school, the College of Business Administration is not without problems. Dean Willian V. Muse noted two shortfalls at the CBA. “We don't have enough full time faculty. Because of the faculty shortage, there is another prob lem: class sizes have to be larger," stated the dean. When the Agricultural & Mechanical College of Texas began operation in 1876, the student body numbered only 48 and class size was no problem. Now, any student can tell about the crowded situation in the classroom and in the community. The Agricultural and Mechanic al College of Texas offered busi ness courses in its Commercial De partment from the very beginning of the institution. At that time, "Double entry bookkeeping, the laws governing commercial trans actions, and the philosophy and morals of business" were the sub jects taught. In 1915 the Department of Eco nomics took over the business courses and taught them until 1921. The only business degree offered was a bachelor's in Agri cultural Administration. In October 1926, the Depart ment of Agricultural Economics was divided into four new depart ments, the Department of Agricul ture and Land Economics, the De partment of Accounting and Sta tistics, the Department of Farm and Ranch Management, and the Department of Marketing and Fi nance. Now a student could re ceive a B.S. in Ag Administration with a business option. Students Selected for Fellows Program Fast-Track to Decision Responsibility by Carole Craft A unique new program has been created to help Texas A&M gradu ates excel in the fields they enter after graduation. The CBA Fellows Program in Business Administra tion concentrates on developing and building the managerial skills of selected undergraduates. "This program is unique in the intensive use of student-business interaction," said Dr. Lyle Schoen- feldt. Director of the program and Head of the Management Depart ment. "We have big expectations for the idea, and with the support of the business community, we are hoping for a huge success." Twenty-eight students have been chosen for the Fellows Prog ram, which will encompass the second half of the student's junior year, the senior year and a sum mer internship between the years. Students applied for admission to the program by filling out a ques tionnaire which asked them to de scribe their own management capabilities. They then experi enced a 25-minute interview in which they were asked about col lege life, employment and future plans. The students are chosen by late January (of their junior year) and attend meetings in February, March and April. The meetings will involve orientation to the program, making arrangements for internships, and getting ac quainted with one another. There will be a two-day retreat following the programs in May which will orient the students to their intern ships. The summer work experience is perhaps the single most important aspect of the CBA Fellows Prog ram, according to Dr. Schoenfeldt. In the summer internship prog ram, students gain experience with a business organization that is chosen according to the stu dent's technical expertise (accounting, finance, marketing, management, informations sys tems). "This program is going to be an excellent opportunity for both the students and businesses," said Dr. Schoenfeldt. "The student will be able to work with professionals, and the businesses will be getting a student who has proven his or her ability." Students will be challenged by assignments that may include some supervisory responsibility and the necessity to coordinate efforts across different depart ments. The senior year seminar is aimed at the further development of the individual's managerial and leadership skills. During this year, there will be weekly sessions de voted to guest speakers as well as presentations by faculty and com pany specialists on such matters as marketing and finance. Two integ rative elements, a business game and short practicum experience, will allow students to gain experi ence in working cooperatively together and with specialists at other companies. Principal support for the CBA Fellows Program will come from the faculty and administration at Texas A&M University as well as dedicated executives and mana gers who contribute time and energy by advising and teaching in the classroom. It is planned that all funds for the Program will be de rived from individual, foundation, and corporate contributions. Cri tical charter support was provided by the Diamond Shamrock Cor poration, Tenneco, Inc., and Mr. H. G. Schiff of Dallas. Prior to the CBA Fellows Prog ram, the College of Business Administration had no special academic programs for students with demonstrated leadership capabilities. The Fellows Program is seen as a unique and innovative effort to identify and develop the management potential of selected CBA undergraduate students. The program is designed to take advantage of the special leader ship opportunities provided by the Texas A&M environment to meet the current and growing needs for competent and effective managerial personnel. The business curriculum was transferred to the School of Arts and Sciences in 1946, as the Busi ness and Accounting Department. From 1946 to 1950 this arrange ment offered Bachelor of Science degrees with majors in business and in accounting. In 1950 the name was changed to the Department of Business Administration, still under the School of Arts and Sciences. Now Texas A&M offered an M.B. A. and the Bachelor of Business Adminis tration degrees. Degree programs were in accounting, building pro ducts marketing, finance, general business, insurance marketing, personnel administration, and sta tistics. 1956 saw another name change, from the Department of Business Administration to the Division of Business Administration within the School of Arts and Sciences. Texas A&M University became the official name, by legistlative ac tion, for the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas in 1963. At that time the Division of Business Administration became the School of Business Adminis tration, but remained a part of the school which now became the Col lege of Arts and Sciences. The de gree programs offered by the new ly formed School of Business Administration were in four major areas: Accounting, Finance, Man agement, and Marketing. The School of Business Admi nistration was authorized in 1966 to form departments within itself. The results were the five present departments: Accounting, Fi nance, Management, Marketing, and the Department of Business Analysis and Research. The School of Business Admi nistration was separated from the College of Liberal Arts in 1968. This brought the establishment of the College of Business Adminis tration on Sept. 1, 1968, with au thorization to supplement its undergraduate and master's prog rams with work leading to the Doctor of Philosophy in Business Administration. The Ph.D. prog ram began with the fall term of 1969. On May 4, 1972, the College of Business Administration was offi cially recognized by its peer insti tutions as being a leading schoolof business by the American Associa tion of Collegiate Schools of Business's accreditation of the undergraduate and master's de gree programs. Only 79 other in stitutions in the United States had that distinction at that time. At present, A&M and the Busi ness Administration school are recognized and well respected na tion-wide. A survey of some four teen-hundred Texas executives in dicated that, in their opinions, itis one of the top schools anywhere The Gourman Report in 1980rank ed Texas A&M's business school among the twenty best business schools. The total undergraduate enrollment in the College of Busi ness Administration ranks fifth largest in the nation. With a past steeped in tradition, a present day situation of innova tiveness and change, and an excit ing future, the Texas A&M College of Business Administration will continue to advance as one of the premier educational institutions of the U.S. HAPPY HOUR 5-7 Mon.-Thurs. 4:30-6:30 Fri. Sat. 11-5 Mon.-Sat. OPEN 11-11 Mon.-Thurs. 11-12 Fri.-Sat. 11-2:30 Sunday Brunch 5-10 Sunday ’o-ciosing intekurban MONDAY—Sorority Night! Bring in your greek letters and drink all night for half-price!!! WEDNE^SDAY—Ladies Night! All ladies’ drinks half-price from 5 till closing!! INTERURBAN EATING HOUSE 846-8741 505 University Drive 775-TIPS miiMiiMiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiNiimmiNiiiiiiNiiiimiiiiiiiimimiiimmiiimimiMiiiiiiiiiiiiMimimiiimimiiiiiiiiiiMimimmiiiimiiimiiiiiiMiimMiiiiiiiiMiiiiiiiiiiMiiiimmiiimiimiiiiimimim